Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-12-16
THE RED ELEPHANT.
ANOTHER GOOD PROPERTY BEING
OPENED NEAR BULLION.
Professor Parks's Report on the Group
He Predicts that 1t will Be Worked
at PrOft-Etc.


exhaustive examination of the Red
Elephant group of mines at Bullion,
and made his report to the owners.
He found in the Red Elephant a
we'll detned, regular, strong contact
deposit 4 to 60 feet wide, through
which ore deposits are scattered like
plums in a pudding. The ore occurs
In chimneys or chutes, and not IT.
"kidneys," as in so many other mines
here. The larger quantity of the ore
extracted so far was an argentiferous
galena carrying some antimonial sill.
yer which assays quite high. Three
tons of it taken from a winze sam
Piled 17S ounces to the ton. Work is
not carried on in this winze at present,
the force being busy elsewhere. But
there is no doubt but that more of
this grade of ore will be shown up
there.
A peculiar feature of this property,
which has not been noted in any other
claim in this immediate section. is tie
occurrence of dark, ruby silver.
Some of this ore resembles very close
ly that OF the famous Granite Noun
tain, of Montana. The ore being of
such a remarkably high-grade, the
ked Elephant owners are justified in
the belief that they have good mine.
The property has heretofore been
worked in very expensive, irrational
way. Whenever the old owners
struck ore they began "gouging" il,
out regardless OF consequences and
of the much greater expense than
they would have been subjected to if
they had opened their mine properly,
in a systematic way. Both owners
and leasers at the Red Elephant mine
heretofore took out every pound of
ore that they came across, without,
apparently, caring what the cost was,
nor how the mine was left for future
exploitation. The consequence Of this
wasteful mismanagement was that
when the present owners took hold Of
the property they found themselves
compelled to do much dead or par
TALLY dead work before they could
proceed to work in any systematic
way. Had the property been proper
y opened from the start, Professor
Parks does not doubt but that it would
long since have figured among our
dividend paying mines; nor does he
entertain doubt that, under its
present management, the mine will,
in few months, show good and
steadily increasing profit.
In consequence of Professor Parks's
examination, the workings will be
gradually extended and the mine
opened in a workmanlike manner,
without pound Of ore being ex-
tracted that is not absolutely in the
way of the miners; and that as soon
as it is demonstrated beyond any pos
sible doubt that a concentrating mill
can be kept going constantly it will
be huilt-but not before.
In the meantime operations will be
pushed with the utmost vigor, and as
the surface indications, as read by
Professor Parks, show the wien to be
stronger to the west of the present
workings than in the ground already
opened, this western portion will be
developed.
The maps which accompany the
report are so full and complete that
all who examine them must get a
clear, accurate, and comprehensive
idea of the underground workings
and of the geological features of the
country in the immediate vicinity OF
the Red Elephant.
This examination by Professor
Parks-especially when considered IN
connection with the examinations al
ready made by Professor Jenney, E
B. True, and other reputable engineers
marks a new and common-sense
era N mine development here. Here.
tofore the idea of employing shook
miners" at they were contemptuous
ly termed, has been secuted; because
"practical" miners were supposed te
be far more reliable to "know il
ALL" But from this time on the aid
of "the science of the schools vii
be availed of here as 1t has elsewhere
with increasing frequency, until by